Welcome to Transylvania Community Arts Council!
TC Arts is a nonprofit organization with the
mission to "To enhance the quality of life in Transylvania County by celebrating and nurturing the creative spirit of artists, youth
and individuals throughout the County." The Arts Council receives support from
TC Arts
Members-the local community, the
City of Brevard, Transylvania County Schools, Duke Energy, and the North
Carolina Arts Council. Become a member of the
Arts Council! Individual memberships are the primary source of income for TC Arts.
Memberships allow us to produce and maintain
community outreach programs such as Arts-in-Schools. Membership also keeps you informed
about arts happenings in Transylvania County. For more information on memberships or sponsorship
opportunties call TC Arts at 828-884-2787 or email
Tammy
Hopkins
.
Thank you for visiting our TC
Arts Website. Feel free to
contact
us
with your comments or
questions or visit us at the TC Arts Center, weekdays, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Transylvania Community Arts Center is located at 349 South Caldwell
Street, in Brevard, NC. Please visit our other website for the
arts of Brevard and Transylvania County at www.artsofbrevard.org
.
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news or go to our calendar events
page
Kid's Campaign Launches
The Transylvania Community Arts Council believes that strong arts programs in schools are essential for all students. Unfortunately, due to major cutbacks in government funding, TCArts faces the possibility of having to scale back its arts in schools programming. For this reason, and in celebration and continuing support of 25 years of Arts-in-Schools programming, TCArts is launching its 2008/2009 Arts-in-Schools Kids Campaign. It cost only $200 per classroom or $6.00 per child.
What We
Do
·
Artists’ Residencies:
NC artists spend a week in the schools,
giving students a hands-on art experience.
·
School Performance Series:
Every county student
attends a live, professional performance annually, featuring multi-cultural
music, theater and dance.
·
Take Art to Heart: Volunteers present monthly art lessons to
first, second and fifth grade students.
·
Student Art Show: Students, grades K
through 12, proudly exhibit their work at the Community Arts
Ctr.
·
Summer Art Camp: More than 80 children
find creative expression through painting, pottery and
dance.
What You Can
Do
Join our campaign to
provide theater, music, opera, dance and week-long residencies in county
schools. The cost per child to the arts council is $6.00. Your donation of $200
enables TCArts to reach an entire classroom of young people for one
year.
Arts in the Schools depends on you. We hope you will be generous in supporting this important aspect of our mission to celebrate and nurture the creative spirit in our county.
Why Arts Programming is Essential
for Young Students
· Art helps students make new connections and think “outside the box.”
· Expression in the arts helps students develop cognitive and physical skills.
· Each art form brings special ways of perceiving the world, utilizing critical thinking and problem solving skills.
· The arts help transform the school environment to one of discovery and learning.
· Art criticism helps students develop observation and analytical skills that can be transferred to other areas of study.
· The arts are essential to an understanding of personal, local, national and global cultures, past and present.
Artwork from the Transylvania County Student Art Show
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Directions to Transylvania Community Arts Center.
Transylvania Community Arts
Council
349 South Caldwell Street
Brevard, North Carolina 28712
828-884-ARTS (2787) tcarts@citcom.net